In ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’, Billie Eilish rips off the psychic bodice and cranks up the volume in her vocals, as well as her own desires.
“People say I look happy / Just because I got skinny,” Billie Eilish sings in “Skinny”, the lead track off her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. “But the old me is still me / And maybe the real me / And I think she’s pretty.” Are we entering a new era of Eilish? The singer-songwriter may only be 22 years old, but her 22 is not just anybody’s 22. She is, after all, a performer whose breakthrough work came out before she had even graduated from high school.
It’s no coincidence that Eilish is learning what it is to love women as she comes around to loving her own body. In the classic feminist text Our Bodies, Ourselves, the authors urged women of yesteryear to do body-affirming mirror exercises, and to relish their physical forms like unique works of art. In a 2024 interview with Rolling Stone, Billie extolled the virtues of her own lustier version of the exercise: making love to herself in front of a mirror.
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